Giles Slade

Giles Slade

Giles Slade is an American freelance writer and author of "Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America".

He was educated at the University of Southern California and later worked for Harlequin Enterprises, writing adventure novels.

His 2006 book, "Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America", documents the history of the planned obsolescence phenomenon in America.

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Giles Slade is a freelance writer and author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America.

He was educated at the University of Southern California and later followed Margaret Atwood and Brian Moore to Harlequin Enterprises, where he trained writing action-adventure novels.

His 2006 book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, documents the history of disposability (including the phenomenon of planned obsolescence) in America.

Made To Break won the International Publisher's [IPPY] Gold Medal for best environmental book of 2007 and was released in a paperback edition in October 2007.

External links

* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SLAMAD.html "Made to Break" Harvard University Press site]
* [http://www.powells.com/tqa/slade.html Interview at Powells.com]


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